Mississippi
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- Missippi (nonstandard)
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Ojibwe misi-ziibi, ᒥᓯ᐀ᓰᐱ (misi-siipi, “great river”)
Proper noun edit
Mississippi
- A state of the United States.
- 2014 November 2, “State Legislatures and ALEC”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 23, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
- That’s right. In fact, a law which passed in Mississippi is so restrictive, it could close the one remaining abortion clinic they have in the entire state, meaning a Mississippi woman, right now, could be saying to herself, “I need to go someplace more progressive like Alabama.”
- A major river in the United States that flows from north-central Minnesota into the Gulf of Mexico.
Synonyms edit
- (state): the Magnolia State, the Hospitality State (nicknames); MS / MS. / Ms. / Ms, Miss. / MISS. / MISS (abbreviations)
- (river): the Big Muddy (also used for the Missouri), Big River, Body of a Nation, El Grande, El Grande de Soto, the Father of Waters, the Gathering of Waters, the Great River, the Mighty Mississippi, the Mississippi River, the Muddy Mississippi, Old Man River (nicknames)
Derived terms edit
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Translations edit
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Interjection edit
Mississippi
- Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which each iteration is sequentially numbered and supposed to be approximately one second in length.
- 1996 September, “Cheers & Jeers”, in Field and Stream, volume 101, page 12:
- Any reader who uses the old “One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, etc.” method to estimate distance to a storm, and doesn't get any further than a count of five to eight had better be in a safe shelter.
Noun edit
Mississippi (plural Mississippis)
- A recitation of “Mississippi” (interjection).
- 1997, George Clark, The Small Bees’ Honey: Stories, Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, page 129:
- I counted five Mississippis between each flash of lightning and the thunder crash that followed.
- 2008, Tim Winton, chapter 3, in Breath, Picador UK Paperback 2008 edition, page 30:
- We had lungs like camel bladders by then; we sledged each other mercilessly, each daring the other to break the two-minute limit beneath the diving board. In the summer sea when it was flat-calm and there was nothing else to do but dive down and lie on the clean, ribbed bottom and hold our breaths to count Mississippis we got pretty close to our goal.
See also edit
States: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming |
Federal District: Washington, D.C. |
Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands |
Etymology 2 edit
Although its current spelling may be derived from that of its much larger American cousin, it is most certainly a corruption of a different indigenous name, as the translation “great water” would not apply to a relatively minor tributary of the Ottawa, definitely the largest river in the area. Instead, the name may originate from Mazinaa[bikinigan]-ziibi, Algonquian for “[painted] image river”, referring to the pictographs found on Mazinaw Lake, though this is by no means proven.
Proper noun edit
Mississippi
Synonyms edit
Further reading edit
- Mississippi River (Ontario) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English Mississippi.
Proper noun edit
Mississippi (genitive Mississippis)
- Mississippi (a state of the United States)
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From English Mississippi.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈmisisipi/, [ˈmis̠iˌs̠ipi]
- IPA(key): /ˈmisːisːipːi/, [ˈmis̠ːis̠ˌs̠ipːi] (or any combination of short/long)
- Rhymes: -ipːi
- Syllabification(key): Mis‧sis‧sip‧pi
Proper noun edit
Mississippi
- Mississippi (a state of the United States)
- Mississippi (river)
Declension edit
Inflection of Mississippi (Kotus type 5*B/risti, pp-p gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Mississippi | — | ||
genitive | Mississipin | — | ||
partitive | Mississippiä | — | ||
illative | Mississippiin | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Mississippi | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Mississippi | — | |
gen. | Mississipin | |||
genitive | Mississipin | — | ||
partitive | Mississippiä | — | ||
inessive | Mississipissä | — | ||
elative | Mississipistä | — | ||
illative | Mississippiin | — | ||
adessive | Mississipillä | — | ||
ablative | Mississipiltä | — | ||
allative | Mississipille | — | ||
essive | Mississippinä | — | ||
translative | Mississipiksi | — | ||
abessive | Mississipittä | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English Mississippi.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /mis.sisˈsip.pi/, /mis.siˈsip.pi/, /mis.siˈsi.pi/[1]
- Rhymes: -ippi, -ipi
- Hyphenation: Mis‧sis‧sìp‧pi
Proper noun edit
Mississippi m
- Mississippi (a river in the United States)
- Mississippi (a state of the United States)
References edit
- ^ Mississippi in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Mississippi m
- Mississippi (a river in the United States)
- Mississippi (a state of the United States)
Slovak edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Mississippi n
- Mississippi (a state of the United States)
References edit
- “Mississippi”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024